so im trying to make a suit of shadow platemail, 7 pieces, and im a gm blacksmith. 1/3 pieces is what i've avgd so far, 5 pieces in, so i've made 15 and 5 have been gm. The lowest colored ore is freakin 33%. wtf is that about. that still makes it 1/billion to make a blood/blackrock gm. hypebole but w/e.
another thing. it takes 15 ingots to make a closed helm. first hit says clumsy, i tab in and out of war twice, and it uses 14 freakin ingots, shouldn't it use about a quarter. and if its gonna be so fn hard to make gm quality items, we should be able to smelt the items if we want. iand how the f am i gonna use 42 ingots to make 2 shields. first one went master-adept-adept - expert shield. 2nd went master-clumsy-cancel, and it used 42 fn ingots when it should have been 28 if i had completed it, but i canceled the second one by tabbing in and out of war twice. here's a screenshot.
http://i929.photobucket.com/albums/ad13 ... ources.jpg
and no i didnt go for buckler as that has a 6.0 difficulty and is obv an error and that would be abusing a bug, unless it on purpose, so please let me know if that is the case and i'll never make any shield other than a buckler again.
so overall, i used 371 shadow ingots, and got one suit that was gm.
that seems pretty fn lame to me for the lowest decent armor. that makes me wanna charge 20k for a gm suit of shadow, but is the durability really that much better, how the hell would a player know?!?!?!?!?
basically that was my bitching, here's the problems i ran across.
1. when canceling the craft after the first segment, i used 93.33% of the resources i would use to make the whole thing. only tested that one item and not doing it again as that will just be a big ass waste of resources
2. When cancelling after the second segment, but before the third, i used 200% of resources. metal shield=14 ingots. started with 185, successful make, then 2 segments and cancel, ended with 143 ingots. 185-143=42. 42/3=14. Since the first was successful, i'm assuming that the first attempt only used 14 ingots, but not sure, and i'll leave it for a gm to test as none of my ingots from the first test were ever replaced. not that i expected them to be.
3. why wasnt this tested by gm's before implemented. i know i'm not the only person pissed about this bs.